'OS' Category
Yahoo messenger and Windows VirtualStore
Today I had an interesting challenge in front of me. As I already wrote about in a couple of posts I have a NAS set up for backing up my personal data, as well as my important VMWare machines. I switched my Windows backup client to Cobian last week, because GFI has serious issues with [...]
What do you do when your VMware server dies?
You start panicking of course Ok seriously now. You try to fix the problem first. If that doesn’t work then you bring the server back from the backups you are so regularly making. You are aren’t you? And you always make sure that your backup plan is actually working. Don’t you? About a week ago [...]
Windows 7 first impressions
A week ago my old XP died on me for the last time. And it was the longest installation period i had with XP. Almost two years of heavy duty work and countless installations. Before they never lasted more than a year of torture. Now after almost two years I got a BSOD. Instead of [...]
Upgrading your stable Debian
Do you know how to upgrade you stable Debian release? I am not talking about upgrading packages, but upgrading your Debian to a new stable release when that comes around. Typical Debian installation has “sources.list” like that deb http://ftp.si.debian.org/debian/ lenny main deb-src http://ftp.si.debian.org/debian/ lenny main deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main [...]
Backup your linux (Debian) virtual machines (VMWare)
In the last post I wrote about a free NAS solution for you home (or office) backup strategy. I wrote about the ease of setting it up and how I searched for a free and simple way to backup my windows machines. I am stil using GFI Backup 2009. The only change is, that I [...]